Category: Research

If a baby can feel empathy at 4 months,(I 20.9.17John von Radowitz) why is it that we read of people who cannot feel empathy for anyone? Following a court case of someone who has committed a vicious attack on another human being, how often do we read in the papers that “the accused showed no…

Yet another major report published this month highlights the parlous state of children’s health and wellbeing in the United Kingdom. The recent ‘State of Child Health Report 2017′ published by the Royal College of Paediatric & Child Health (RCPCH) exposes a major problem. Prof. Neena Modi President of the RCPCH suggests that this is because…

Is it possible to say that one of those agreed responses we all have in life, could be on those occasions where we read in the press that a mother has died in childbirth, leaving a surviving baby? Do we all think this is a particularly, viscerally, devastating family tragedy? All untimely death is a…

There is a huge body of research that confirms that children flourish when they feel secure, when they are responded to sensitively, when they are talked with, and encouraged to develop their skills and explore their environment. The early months of life, from conception to age three, are when the infant brain is developing at…

Have you ever wondered how crucially important a particular human voice is to you? Has such a concept even crossed your mind at all? A baby’s brain is attuned to its mother’s voice in the most amazing way. It may surprise you to know that it is a very exclusive tuning that, effectively, seems to…

Currently 1 in 10 young people suffers a mental health problem. There is a significant and growing bank of evidence indicating that mental health is determined by early life experience in ‘conversation’ with our genes – as research cited on this website site would testify. It can be argued that sometimes the dull, unexciting and…